Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

Resumen del libro

Hailed internationally as perhaps the most important novel of the young twenty-first century, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming is the culmination of László Krasznahorkai's remarkable and singular career. Nearing the end of his life, Baron Bela Wenckheim decides to return to the provincial Hungarian town of his birth. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he wishes to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika.

What follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men and local politicians, vividly evoking the small town's alternately drab and absurd existence. Spectacular actions are staged, death and the abyss loom, until finally doom is brought down on the unsuspecting residents of the town. 'I've said a thousand times that I always wanted to write just one book.

Biografía del autor

László Krasznahorkai (nascut el 5 de gener de 1954 a Hongria) és un escriptor hongarès reconegut per les seves novel-les denses, filosòfiques i apocalíptiques. La seva prosa es caracteritza per llargues frases hipnòtiques i una atmosfera inquietant. Va guanyar el Premi Man Booker Internacional el 2015 pel conjunt de la seva obra. Entre els seus llibres més coneguts hi ha Sátántangó (1985), que Béla Tarr va adaptar al cinema, i La melancolia de la resistència (1989). La seva obra sovint explora la decadència, lx{0026} x02019;absurd i el col-lapse de la civilització.